Fesvals and Fairs Connued: Matuck Strawberry Fesval Date: June 15 ‐ 17 Strawberry Fields , Matuck, NY Kings Park Day Town Fair Date: June 16 Main St and Municipal parking lot, Kings Park, NY Northport Fireman’s Fair Date: July 9 ‐ 14 Steers Ave, Northport, NY 6th Annual Great South Bay Music Fesval Date: July 13 ‐ 15 Shorefront Park, Patchogue, NY East Northport Fireman’s Fair Date: August 4 ‐ 5 East Northport, NY Polish Town Fair 2012: Street Fair and Polka Fesval Date: August 17 ‐ 18 Riverhead, NY 21st Annual Seafood Fesval & Cra Fair Date: August 25 ‐ 26 Long Island Marime Museum, West Sayville, NY Compiled by Andrea Graham, Teen Services Librarian Northport‐East Northport Public Library 151 Laurel Avenue, Northport, NY 11768 www.nenpl.org/teen May 2012 The Northport-East Northport Public Library’s Teen Guide to an Awesome Summer 2012 books*games*music*activities*movies AND MORE! 16 www.nenpl.org/teens Guide to an Awesome Summer 3 Camping Sites and Parks Connued: Hamptons to Montauk/Southfork: Reading Club 2012 3 Cedar Point County Park ‐ East Hampton Great Summer Reads 4‐8 Cupsogue Beach County Park ‐ Westhampton Beyond Lemonade: How to Make Money this Summer 8‐9 Hither Hills State Park ‐ Montauk Meschu Beach County Park Campground ‐ Hampton Bays Chill Out and Wild Out: Great Summer Music 9 Sears Bellows County Park Campground ‐ Hampton Bays Great Movies and Cold A/C: Summer Blockbusters 10 Shinnecock East County Park ‐ Southampton Go Out and Explore: Outdoor Fun For All 10 North Shore: Blydenburgh County Park Campground ‐ Smithtown Local Beaches 11 Wildwood State Park Campground ‐ Wading River Surf Spots 11 South Shore: Skate Parks 11 Eugene Nickerson Beach Park Campground ‐ Lido Beach Water Park 12 Heckscher State Park Campground ‐ East Islip Geocaching 12 Summer Festivals Summer Concerts 12 Tasty stall food, interesng exhibits, music performances and rides YDA Summer Oungs 13 galore. Long Island is bursng with summer fairs this year. If you Game On! Video Games 13 and your friends are looking for an alternave to the movies and Lend A Helping Hand: Volunteer Opportunies 14 bowling, a summer fair is a great way to spend an evening. Just watch your snack intake before you ride the Gravitron! For more Sleep Under The Stars: Camping and Hiking 14‐15 informaon on summer fesvals visit Life On Long Island at: Summer Fesvals 15‐16 www.lifeonlongisland.com/ 15 Lend a Helping Hand: Guide to an Awesome Summer Volunteer Opportunities School’s out! The weather is hot and you have a lot of free me on your The summer is a great me to pursue volunteer opportunies. hands. To help you plan an unforgeable summer vacaon, the North‐ Volunteering provides community support, teaches valuable skills port– East Northport Public Library Teen Services Department has put and looks great on your transcript and resumé. Check out our together the Teen Guide to an Awesome Summer. Inside you’ll find sug‐ online guide to local volunteer organizaons and opportunies at gesons for the best in books, games, music and movies and great ps to the Northport – East Northport Public Library Teen Services page for help you discover cool new acvies, places and hobbies. In addion, we local volunteer opportunies at: have listed local aracons and summer events to help you make this www.nenpl.org/teens/help/volunteerresources.php the greatest summer yet! For more info about Teen Services at NENPL visit Sleep Under the Stars: www.nenpl.org/teens/ Camping and Hiking Gather your friends, some supplies and pitch a tent! Long Island and New York State is full of great parks for camping, hiking and enjoying You Are Here @ Your Library! the great outdoors. Visit the NYS parks department online for area Join the fun this summer and parcipate in the Northport – East camping sites and more informaon. Northport Teen Summer Reading Club 2012. From June 22‐ www.nysparks.state.ny.us/parks/ August 8, students entering grades 6‐12 are invited to come to the library and read for prizes as well as take part in special Camping Sites and Parks: programs offered throughout the summer. Central Suffolk: Earn one Book Buck for every age‐appropriate book that you read. Cathedral Pines County Park ‐ Middle Island Obtain your “Read and Rate Forms” in the Teen Centers or online at Smith Point County Park ‐ Shirley www.nenpl.org/teens. Your Book Bucks will be held at the Reference Southaven County Park Campground ‐ Brookhaven Desk. They will be redeemable for cool prizes such as gi cerficates, books, posters and collecbles. For more info about our summer programs visit www.nenpl.org/teens 14 3 Great Summer Reads YDA Summer Outings There is nothing beer than soaking up some summer rays and East Northport’s youth agency YDA sponsors super fun summer reading a great book. The following books are a collecon of this field trips to amusement parks, arcades, baseball games and year’s must‐read tles and not to be missed classics. Whether you more. Teens in grades 6‐12 are welcome to sign up, but space is dig zombies and high speed acon or total drama and mythological limited. Below is a sample of some of their planned field trips. For creatures, you will find your new favorite book here. more informaon and to register, please contact them at 631‐261‐7901 and visit them online at: www.ydaonline.org Looking For Love in All the Right and Wrong Places: Stories of Love, Friendship and Everything In Between YDA Field Trips: Where She Went by Gayle Forman Hershey Park ‐ July 10th Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler Dave & Buster’s ‐ July 17th The Fault in Our Stars by John Green Video Game Truck ‐ July 26th Virtuosity by Jessica Marnez Lazerland ‐ July 31st Recovery Road by Blake Nelson Monster Mini Golf ‐ August 2nd Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins Adventureland ‐ August 7th Past Perfect by Leila Sales Paintball ‐ August 9th The Scorpio Races by Maggie Sefvater Splish Splash ‐ August 14th Sean Griswold's Head by Lindsey Leavi Kayaking ‐ August 16th Jane by April Lindner Hibachi Dinner and Movie ‐ August 23rd Werewolves, Zombies and Vampires of London: Game On! Video Games Ghoulishly Good Paranormal Stories Somemes the sun just refuses to shine, and that’s a perfect me Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake to dust off your favorite game console. Here are our favorites: Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement‐Moore Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor Great Games Ruby Red by Kersn Gier Bason (Windows, Mac OS X, Xbox Live Arcade, Google Chrome) The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP (iOS, Windows) Incarnate by Jodi Meadows Uncharted 3: Drake's Decepon (PS3) Everneath by Brodi Ashton Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) Forbidden by Syrie James and Ryan M. James Journey (PS3) Eighth Grade Bites by Heather Brewer Trials Evoluon (Xbox 360) MLB 2K12 (PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360) Street Fighter X Tekken (PS3, Xbox 360) Minecra (Android, iOS, Xbox 360 ) 4 Waterpark: Never Can Say Goodbye: With over 20 slides and aracons, Splish Splash has 96 excing Must Read Social Dramas acres of total fun for the whole family. Everywhere you turn, you’ll Strings Aached by Judy Blundell discover another one‐of‐a‐kind water aracon. Bronxwood by Coe Booth 2549 Middle Country Road, Riverhead (631) 727‐3600 Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff Visit online at: www.splishsplashlongisland.com Bier End by Jennifer Brown Stay by Deb Cale Geocaching: Treasure Hunng with a GPS Bier Melon by Cara Chow Geocaching is a high‐tech treasure hunng game played throughout A Brief History of Montmaray by Michelle Cooper the world by adventure seekers equipped with GPS devices. The What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen basic idea is to locate hidden containers, called geocaches, outdoors Something Like Hope by Shawn Goodman and then share your experiences online. Find local hidden caches Everybody Sees the Ants by A.S. King online at: www.geocaching.com/ Summer Concerts: She Blinded Me With Science Ficon: There’s no beer me than the summer to enjoy an outdoor concert. The Best in Sci‐Fi and Fantasy Many area concerts also have free admission. Check out the lisngs The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel Series by Michael Sco below to find informaon about your favorite bands and musicians. Brotherband Chronicles by John Flanagan The Apothecary by Maile Meloy Art, Music and Poetry in the Park‐ Northport Village Park The Floang Islands by Rachel Neumeier www.villageofnorthport.com Delirium by Lauren Oliver Jones Beach Summer Concert Series Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs www.jonesbeach.com The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan Central Park NYC Summer Stage Free Concerts Divergent by Veronica Roth www.summerstage.org Matched by Allyson Condie WFUV Summer Rock + Indie concert lisngs Cinder: Book One in the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer www.wfuv.org Hot 97 Hip Hop + R&B concert lisngs www.hot97.com/concerts/ 106.1 WBLI Pop + Dance concert lisngs www.wbli.com/s/bli‐concerts/ 5 Schools Out! Don’t Turn Off Your Brain: Local Beaches: Stories to Make You Think Asharoken Beach A Time of Miracles by Anne‐Laure Bondoux Crabmeadow Wither: The Chemical Garden Trilogy by Lauren DeStefano Hobart Beach My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson Sunken Meadow Under the Mesquite by Guadalupe Garcia McCall Jones Beach (Ocean Beach) Shine by Lauren Myracle Robert Moses (Ocean Beach) A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Gheo Cowboy by Greg Neri Surf Spots: Karma, A Novel in Verse by Cathy Ostlere There are a lot of great places for surfers of all skill levels to find Guantanamo Boy by Anna Perera good waves on Long Island.